Some questions about "EP full-text search" web service
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:00 am
Due to a problem we have had in the past with the European patents loading process that uses the files with the specification the EBD (https://www.epo.org/searching-for-paten ... html#tab-1), we are trying to use the "EP full-text search" web service to retrieve that information and load it into our systems. To do that, we do a request to the web service; then, we select all the patents publications we want to upload to our system and finally, we download the data in XML format.
We have been finding some problems with this process. For example, we have to change the <ep-patent-document> tag to the <ep-bulletin> one. We have also had to keep only the <SDOBI> tag and its child elements, discarding the rest of the downloaded tags.
We currently have a new problem. The “file” attribute of the <ep-bulletin> tag, should have the format of the request number and control digit, but we are obtaining it as follows:
<ep-patent-document id = "EP10791303B1" file = "EP10791303NWB1.xml" lang = "en" country = "EP" doc-number = "2506626" kind = "B1" date-publ = "20160629" status = " n "dtd-version =" ep-patent-document-v1-5 ">
Following these problems, we would like to know two things:
1. Is there any way of downloading a list of publications in the exact EBD format? As far as we know, it is not possible to retrieve the exact EBD format using the EPOs Webservices.
2. Has anyone had the need to upload the patents with EBD format files and has done that using the "EP full-text search" web service?
Thanks in advance
We have been finding some problems with this process. For example, we have to change the <ep-patent-document> tag to the <ep-bulletin> one. We have also had to keep only the <SDOBI> tag and its child elements, discarding the rest of the downloaded tags.
We currently have a new problem. The “file” attribute of the <ep-bulletin> tag, should have the format of the request number and control digit, but we are obtaining it as follows:
<ep-patent-document id = "EP10791303B1" file = "EP10791303NWB1.xml" lang = "en" country = "EP" doc-number = "2506626" kind = "B1" date-publ = "20160629" status = " n "dtd-version =" ep-patent-document-v1-5 ">
Following these problems, we would like to know two things:
1. Is there any way of downloading a list of publications in the exact EBD format? As far as we know, it is not possible to retrieve the exact EBD format using the EPOs Webservices.
2. Has anyone had the need to upload the patents with EBD format files and has done that using the "EP full-text search" web service?
Thanks in advance